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  • August 13, 2025

    Convicted ComEd CEO Seeks Bond Pending 7th Circ. Appeal

    Former Commonwealth Edison and Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore has requested to stay out of jail while she appeals her criminal conviction and two-year prison sentence, saying her case was "far from ordinary" and that bond would keep her from serving a substantial portion of her sentence unnecessarily if the Seventh Circuit finds in her favor.

  • August 13, 2025

    2nd Circ. Says Allowing Biased Jury Strikes Can Be Strategic

    A unanimous Second Circuit panel found Wednesday that a Black man sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempted murder and other crimes cannot win release by arguing his lawyer failed to adequately object to the dismissal of Black potential jurors, saying the attorney may have been acting "strategically."

  • August 12, 2025

    OneTaste Execs Lose Acquittal Bid In Forced Labor Case

    A Brooklyn federal judge has refused to grant OneTaste's founder and sales director a judgment of acquittal following their conviction for a forced labor conspiracy at the "orgasmic meditation" company, saying the trial evidence against them was abundant.

  • August 12, 2025

    Meta Privacy Verdict Raises Stakes For Website Data Tracking

    A California federal jury's move to hold Meta accountable for unauthorized receipt of sensitive health data gathered through a popular online tracking tool strengthens website users' position in these disputes and should prompt companies to revisit their data collection and sharing practices, even as the social media giant fights the decision. 

  • August 12, 2025

    Trump Wants To 'Strike Fear' With Troops In Calif., Judge Told

    A lawyer for California argued during a San Francisco bench trial Tuesday that President Donald Trump's military deployment in the state is unlawful and aims to "strike fear into the hearts" of residents, while a Justice Department lawyer said the soldiers stayed within legal boundaries by not carrying out law enforcement activities.

  • August 12, 2025

    Ex-Mich. Cop Wins $58M In Malicious Prosecution Suit

    A Michigan federal jury Tuesday awarded over $58 million to a former police officer who filed a malicious prosecution suit against a state trooper and since-disbarred assistant attorney general for pursuing charges based on discredited allegations he sexually assaulted his daughter, which were later dropped by the state attorney general.

  • August 12, 2025

    Biogen Says It Owes Nothing After $122M IP Royalties Mistrial

    Biogen MA Inc. urged a California federal judge to rule that it owes Genentech Inc. nothing in royalties related to expired patents, saying Genentech's argument for a $122 million award relies on "linguistic gymnastics," in a rare post-mistrial arrangement that will see the judge step in to deliver the verdict.

  • August 12, 2025

    Amazon's 'Dark Patterns' Expert Nixed From FTC Prime Suit

    Amazon.com Inc. is down a key expert witness after a Washington federal judge ruled that an engineering consultant has offered nothing but his expertise and experience to argue the Federal Trade Commission wrongly accuses the retail giant of using "dark patterns" to trick users into Prime subscriptions.

  • August 12, 2025

    NJ Appeals Court Clarifies Ghost Gun Law, Affirms Sentence

    A New Jersey state appeals court found in a matter of first impression that a man who bought ghost gun kits in Pennsylvania, where they are legal, could be charged when he brought the non-serialized, unlicensed weapons back to his Garden State home, affirming his three-year sentence.

  • August 12, 2025

    No New Foreign Bribery Trial For Ex-Connecticut Oil Trader

    A former Connecticut oil trader faces sentencing Nov. 4 after a federal judge declined to overturn a jury's verdict finding him guilty of paying bribes to an official at Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA and laundering money.

  • August 12, 2025

    Trump Nominates 5 To Mississippi, Alabama Federal Courts

    President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday five judicial nominees for federal courts in Mississippi and Alabama, one of whom Trump tried to put on the bench in his first term.

  • August 12, 2025

    FTC Skeptical Of 'Partial' Sale For GTCR Merger Fix

    The Federal Trade Commission told an Illinois federal court that enforcers are reviewing an offer by private equity firm GTCR BC Holding to sell parts of a medical device coatings company in order to fix concerns raised by the company's planned purchase of Surmodics, but said a full sale is preferable.

  • August 12, 2025

    AT&T, T-Mobile Settle Patent Suit After $175M Verizon Verdict

    AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile agreed on Tuesday to resolve patent infringement claims brought by Headwater Research LLC related to wireless communications technology after a federal jury last month said Verizon owed $175 million for infringing two patents belonging to Headwater.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Breit Biniazan's Kevin Biniazan

    Kevin Biniazan of Breit Biniazan PC is in the midst of handling a large case in which over 50 clients allege the medical director of a Virginia hospital sexually abused them, with the first trial in September resulting in what the firm said was the largest tort verdict in Virginia history at $360 million, earning him a place among the attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    MGA Wants Judge To Rule On Punitive Damages In TI Case

    Toy maker MGA Entertainment has asked a California federal judge to decide how much it owes in punitive damages for infringement of trade dress co-owned by rapper Clifford "TI" Harris and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Harris, relating to Tiny Harris' pop group the OMG Girlz, instead of holding the case's fourth jury trial.

  • August 11, 2025

    Army Brass Grilled On Trump's Calif. Troop Deployment

    A San Francisco federal judge overseeing a bench trial over California's claims that President Donald Trump unlawfully deployed military troops in the state dug into a U.S. Army commander's testimony Monday that soldiers were sent to help enforce immigration laws, even when the military's own assessment showed a low risk of violence or damage.

  • August 11, 2025

    11th Circ. Nixes Ineffective-Counsel Claim In Salmonella Case

    Peanut Corp. of America's former president and a food broker convicted for their roles in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened more than 700 cannot throw out their prison sentences, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Monday, rejecting their assertion of ineffective counsel.

  • August 11, 2025

    Justices Told USAA's $218M Win Threatened By Inconsistency

    The Federal Circuit's decision to let the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidate patents at the heart of the United Services Automobile Association's recently reversed $218 million infringement verdict against PNC Bank, endorsed allowing government agencies to issue contradictory rulings without explaining themselves, USAA has told the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • August 11, 2025

    2nd Circ. Revives Ex-Fed Worker's COVID Vax Exemption Suit

    The Second Circuit has revived a former employee's claims against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, saying Monday there was a disputed issue of fact over whether the executive assistant had a genuine religious objection.

  • August 11, 2025

    How A Nonexistent Bar Unraveled A California Bribery Case

    The criminal case against Palm Springs, California, developer John Wessman hinged on a cooperating witness's testimony that Wessman hatched a plan with him at a bar to bribe the city's then-mayor, but his defense counsel from Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP blew up that story on cross-examination by demonstrating the bar hadn't even opened at that time, helping to obtain an acquittal.

  • August 11, 2025

    Ex-Ill. Speaker's 'False Hope' Won't Delay Prison Sentence

    Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan must begin serving his seven-year bribery and wire fraud prison sentence as ordered in October, a federal judge has ruled, finding that Madigan "clings to false hope" in arguing his forthcoming appeal to the Seventh Circuit will present an issue substantial enough to overturn his entire conviction.

  • August 11, 2025

    Pa. Court Finds Man Who Wasn't Driving Can Still Get DUI

    A man found intoxicated in the driver's seat of his running truck in a parking lot had his sentence for driving under the influence affirmed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court, which found it was fair to assume the man had driven there.

  • August 11, 2025

    Charlotte Housing Authority Seeks To Split Bias Trial In Two

    Charlotte's public housing authority Inlivian asked a North Carolina federal judge Monday to divvy up a former coordinator's upcoming workplace retaliation and discrimination trial into two parts so punitive damages are resolved separately.

  • August 11, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Nielsen Holdings Ltd. and consumer intelligence spinoff Nielsen Consumer IQ agreed to end their dispute, a sole investor asked the court to name him lead plaintiff in a suit challenging Endeavor's $13 billion take-private deal, and the Chancery Court announced a new, automated case assignment regime. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

  • August 11, 2025

    Fla. Drinks Co. Founder Faces Filings Ban Over Fake AI Cases

    A Florida federal judge is considering a request to ban the founder of Bang Energy from submitting any more paperwork without court permission after Monster Energy argued Monday that fake legal citations generated from artificial intelligence appeared in a pro se motion to dismiss its judgment collection lawsuit.

Expert Analysis

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery

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    In recent months, several courts have issued opinions on handling discovery issues involving artificial intelligence, which collectively offer useful insights on integrating AI into discovery and protecting work product in connection with AI prompts and outputs, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

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    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

  • Opinion

    Prosecutors' Duty To Justice Sometimes Demands Mea Culpa

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    Two recent cases — U.S. v. Lucas and U.S. v. Echavarria — demonstrate that prosecutors’ special ethical duty to seek justice can sometimes be in tension with other obligations and incentives, but it nonetheless requires them to concede their mistakes in the interests of justice, say Eastern District of Texas law clerk Ian Stephens and Texas A&M University law professor Jemila Lea.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

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    In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

  • Fed. Circ. Ingenico Ruling Pivotal For IPR Estoppel Landscape

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ingenico v. Ioengine brings long-awaited clarity to the scope of inter partes review estoppel, confirming that a patent challenger is not precluded from relying on the same or substantially similar prior art in both IPR and district court proceedings, so long as it is used to support a different invalidity theory, say attorneys at Irwin IP.

  • Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss

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    Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Justices' Resentencing Ruling Fortifies First Step Act Tools

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Hewitt v. U.S. ruling clarifies that resentencing after vacatur must reflect the law in effect at the time of the new sentencing, ultimately strengthening the strategic tools available to defense attorneys under the First Step Act, says Benson Varghese at Varghese Summersett.

  • The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine

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    The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • $95M Caremark Verdict Should Put PBMs On Notice

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    A Pennsylvania federal judge’s recent ruling that pharmacy benefits manager CVS Caremark owes the government $95 million for overbilling Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs highlights the effectiveness of the False Claims Act, as scrutiny of PBMs’ outsized role in setting drug prices continues to increase, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

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